Professor Enrico Dall'Ara
PhD
School of Medicine and Population Health
Professor of Musculoskeletal Biomechanics


+44 114 222 6175
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School of Medicine and Population Health
C+31, Pam Liversidge Building; DU19
The Medical School
Beech Hill Road
Sheffield
S10 2RX
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For enquiries please contact - SMPH-West-Operational@sheffield.ac.uk
I have been Full Professor of Musculoskeletal Biomechanics since 2024.
I hold a PhD from the Vienna 乐竞体育 of Biomechanics and a Master in Mechanical Engineering from the 乐竞体育 of Bologna.
I am the Director of the Skelet.Al laboratories, the Research Director of the Insigneo Computational Modelling in Medicine research theme, and the Deputy Head of the Integrative MusculoSkeletal Biomechanics (IMSB) Research group.
I am the President of the European Society of Biomechanics
I co-lead the Non-Clinical task force of the Avicenna Alliance.
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My research interests are related to better understanding the properties of musculoskeletal tissues across the space and time scales, by using imaging, experimental and computational methods. In particular, the main goal of my research is to develop and validate subject-specific computational models for the prediction of bone strength, bone remodelling and risk of fracture in healthy subjects and in patients with musculoskeletal diseases, applied to both preclinical and clinical studies.
Research projects:
- Validation of Finite Element models for bone at different dimensional levels
- Development and validation of multiscale models for predicting bone remodelling over time
- Preclinical assessment of osteoarthritis with longitudinal microCT
- Development of Finite Element models to study the outcomes of spine fixation
- Prediction of fracture risk for patients with vertebral metastases with QCT based computational models
- Investigation of the effect of bone metastatic lesions on bone strength
- Investigation of the mechanical properties of subchondral bone from OA patients
- Optimisation of Digital Volume Correlation techniques for measuring deformation in heterogeneous biomaterials
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